Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume III, Part 45

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 592


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He married, in February, 1818, Sally, daughter of Thomas and Hester Cortright. of Union, Broome county, New York. She was born May 15. 1799, died October 5, 1872. She was a very amiable and capable woman and


was greatly respected and beloved by all for her kind, benevolent and christian virtues. Their children : I. Louisa, born December 27, 1818, died March 10. 1839. 2. Ezekiel Clark, born June 23, 1820, died September 23, 1804. a lifelong resident of Marathon. 3. Nancy, born April 12, 1822, married Dr. E. Il. Barnes, and died June 9, 1840. 4. Polly Ann, born September 8, 1823, died April 10, 1841. 5. Mersena. born March 5, 1825. mar- ried Dr. Barnes after the death of her sister Nancy, his first wife, and Mersena died Janu- ary 4, 1874. 6. Eleanor, born July 14, 1827, died July 23, 1857; married Washington Wheeler. 7. Hester, born February 10, 1829, died February 18, 1830. 8. Esther A., born December 4, 1830, died May 12, 1909; mar- ried Daniel Delos Hunt (see Hunt IV). 9. Albertis Alanson, mentioned below. 10. Sally, born June 10, 1835, died December 6, 1836. II. Sarah Jane, born March 3, 1837; married C. C. Adams, of Marathon. 12. Cas- sius Clay, mentioned below.


(VIII) Alburtis Alanson, son of Hon. Alanson Carley, was born at Marathon, Janu- ary 6. 1833. He was educated in the public schools of Marathon and in Homer Acad- emy. He spent his boyhood on his father's farm and in his country store. In 1854 he embarked in the dry goods and general store business at Marathon and continued until 1860. During the next three years he mant- factured barrel staves. In December. 1863, he became manager of the Marathon Mills. which his father owned, and he operated them until 1876 under the firm name of A. Carley & Son, conducting a large and profitable busi- noss. He has valuable farming interests in the town of Marathon. He has been living in Cortland since May, 1885. His time is occupied largely with his private affairs, but he has devoted considerable attention to pub- lic matters and has held important offices of trust and honor. In 1881-82 he represented the district in the New York state assembly. In the first year he served on the commit- tees on banks, affairs of villages, charitable and religious societies and public lands and in the second term he was a member of the com- mittee on affairs of cities and banks. He was supervisor of the town of Marathon before coming to Cortland. He has been a director of the First National Bank of Cortland since 1879, and is now vice-president. From 1886 to 1890 he was chairman of the Republican


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county committee of Cortland county and in every campaign carried his ticket to success without a single failure. Since he has been a member of the board of education of Cort- land and served as president of the board.


He was for many years a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church of Marathon and later of the church at Cortland, and was treas- urer of its building committee. Ile is an un- affiliated Free Mason. He is vice-president of the Yale Land and Improvement Com- pany of Cortland. Able, upright and public- spirited, Mr. Carley takes rank among the foremost business men of the town and com- mands the confidence and respect of the entire community.


lle married, October 22. 1884. Anna { Brockett ) Feeter, born in Herkimer county. New York, daughter of Zenas and Candace ( Salisbury ) Brockett. Her father was a noted philanthropist in his day, son of Amos Brockett. of Wolcott, Connecticut. By her first husband. Mrs. Carley had one son, Frank Brockett Feeter, who married Ella C. Loucks, and their children are: John M., Elizabeth M1., Alburtis Carley, Norman L. and Marian .Anna Feeter.


(VII) Cassius Clay, son of Hon. Alanson Carley, was born in Marathon, July 23. 1844. Being the youngest son, he remained on the farm with his father and mother and cared for them in their declining years. In early life he had made plans for a collegiate educa- tion but at the age of eighteen he was obliged by the force of circumstances to leave school. and he began to work in the postoffice, his father then being the postmaster. After his father's term expired he became bookkeeper in the mill which his father operated under the firm name of A. Carley & Son, his elder brother, Alanson A., being the junior partner. In 1876 his father Alanson A. retired and he with his elder brother. Ezekiel Clark, formed a partnership and conducted the business until 1879, when he retired from the firm and since then has devoted his attention exclusively to the conduct of two farms. Mrs. Carley is the owner of two hundred acres in Freetown. Ile made a specialty of thorough-bred Jersey cattle and had at that time the only herd of that stock in the county. Poultry was also a specialty and he became an authority on the subject.


For many years he was judge of live stock at the Broome county fair. His home


is in the village of Homer. In politics he is a staunch Republican.


He married ( first). in 1860, Mercy .A. Tar- bell, born in 1846, at Freetown, New York. He married ( second), in 1886, Mrs. Annette ( Eades ) Glover. Children of first wife : Leon Alanson, mentioned below: Daniel Arvine. died aged four years. Child of second wife: Oliver Eades, born September 27. 1892.


(IX) Leon Alanson, only surviving son of Cassius Clay and Mercy \. ( Tarbell) Car- ley, was born November 19, 1871, in Mara- thon, and early attended the public schools of that town. Imbued with an ambitious spirit. he took the janitorship of the school building where he attended, and under the Regent's College entrance course, he prepared for col- lege and entered Syracuse University at the age of seventeen years, graduating in 1892 with the degree of A. B., being the youngest member of his class, and its president at grad- uation. After graduation he pursued the study of law in the office of Lewis & Crowley. of Syracuse, for two years, and also engaged in newspaper work, thus aiding in meeting the expense of his education. In 1894 he was ad- mitted to the Syracuse bar. During his asso- ciation with Lewis & Crowley. he was identi- fied with the famous Wilson brothers murder trial, and subsequently became associated with Everett P. Turner in the practice of law at Syracuse, under the firm name of Carley & Turner. This association continued until 1901, when it was dissolved. Mr. Carley then removed to New York City and opened a law office at No. 257 Broadway, and subsequently was associated with the law firm of Straley & Hasbrouck, of which firm he became junior partner in 1904. Upon the death of the senior member. John . \. Straley. in 1907. the firm was dissolved and Mr. Carley continued practice independently, being still located at No. 257 Broadway. le conducts a general practice. making a specialty of corporation law. For some years he resided in New York City, then removed to Montclair, New Jersey, where he continued to make his home until 1909, when he removed to the adjoining town of Cald- well. He is at present president of the Men's Club of the Churches of Caklwell, and chair- man of the transportation committee of the Board of Trade of that place. Mr. Carley holds membership in the West End Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church of New York City. where he has been active in church and Sun-


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day school work, and served as president of the Men's Club. Ile is now an attendant of the Congregational church at Montelair, being superintendent of its Sunday school. He is chairman of the committee of twenty-five on excise matters. He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity of Syracuse Univer- ity, and of the following clubs: New York Hardware. Caldwell Club, Montclair Club, and Montclair Athletic Club, of Montclair, New Jersey ; Cortland County Society of New York, and the Syracuse University Associa- tion. During his residence in Syracuse, he was a member of the Forty-first Separate Company, National Guard, State of New York. Mr. Carley is a believer in out-of-door life, and is well known for his long walks. He often covers forty and fifty miles a day. He devotes considerable time to courses in psychological research in New York Univer- ity and Union Theological Seminary, and is author of a work on psychology which will soon come from the press.


He married, September 5, 1901, at Homer, New York. Mrs. Jennie Hortense ( Olney) Newton, widow of Frank M. Newton, of Ho- mer, and daughter of Rev. Eugene and Emma J. ( Miller) Olney, of Homer, born November 4, 1875. Her father was many years pastor of the First Congregational Church of Homer. Children : Mercie Lucile, born July 31, 1902 : Leon Alanson. November 21, 1906: Mortimer Peary, December 21, 1909.


HAVILAND William Haviland, immi- grant ancestor, was born in England, and came thence about 1650 to Newport, Rhode Island, of which he was a freeman, May 17, 1653, and a commissioner to the general court at Ports- mouth, elected May 21, 1656. He removed in 1667 to Flushing, Long Island, where he purchased a hundred acres of land on what is now Little Neck. He married, while at Newport, Hannah, daughter of John and Horod (Long) Hicks. They had four sons : 1. Joseph, had land granted at Hempstead in 1688; removed to Westchester, New York, in 1695, and to Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1709, and he died there in 1724. 2. Benjamin, bought land at Harri- son's Purchase, Rye, New York, December 27, 17II ; became a Friend at Flushing as early as 1701 and was a Quaker minister ; died at Rye, July or September. 1726. 3.


John, with wife Sarah and son John was liv- ing in Flushing in 1608: was church warden at Ilempstead and captain of militia; died at Hempstead, October 11, 1740. His will men- tions wife Sarah and children, John, Benja- min, Luke, Joseph, Peter, Jane, Mary, Sarah, Bridget. 4. Jacob, mentioned below.


( II ) Jacob, son of William Haviland, was a resident of Flushing, Long Island, in 1703. and afterward removed to Rye, Westchester county, New York. He was warden of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church of Rye, in 1715- 16-1724. He and his wife Mary sold to Thomas Hlaviland, his nephew, two hundred acres in Harrison's Purchase, Rye, and three acres on Mennisink Island, December 27. 1732, for seven hundred and twenty pounds. Children : Jacob, mentioned below ; Joseph, William, and perhaps other children.


(IHI) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (1) Havi- land, was born about 1710. He doubtless lived in Rye, New York, with his parents. He removed to Oblong, Dutchess county, New York. He was probably a member of the Society of Friends, like many others of the family, and the Quaker records of Ob- long show that his son John removed from Valley Preparatory Meeting ( Society of Friends) to Saratoga, February 17, 1787. Jacob bought land in Oblong, now Dutchess county, also in Putnam county, in 1731. Children : John, mentioned below ; James, born September 12, 1748, died August 21, 1811 ; removed to Saratoga; married Martha and had children: Charles, John, Inger- son, Hannah, Martha, Esther, Elizabeth, Sa- rah, Asenath. (Charles was born September 26, 1777, and had a son Charles Jr., born May 12, 1800, at Hoosick, New York, mar- ried Laura Smith, of Canada, and removed to Michigan. She was born December 20, 1808, died after 1894, was a Quaker and spent her life in benevolent work, helping slaves to escape before the civil war and she wrote a book entitled "A Woman's Life Work," which is almost as interesting as "Uncle Tom's Cabin." )


(IV) John, son of Jacob (2) Haviland, was born in Dutchess county. New York, about 1740. He was a Quaker, and removed to Saratoga in 1787. According to the cen- sus of 1790, John Haviland was living at Hoosick and had one female in his family. James Haviland, his brother, had three sons under sixteen and five females, and Garrison,


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his son, mentioned below, had one son under sixteen and two females in his family. The homestead was in West Hoosick, Rensselaer county. He married Sarah Garrison.


(\') Garrison, son of John Haviland, was born at Oblong. Dutchess county, New York. March 10, 1767, died at Hoosick, Rensselaer county, New York. October 29, 1820. He married, about 1788, Catherina Harten, born January 17, 1766, died November 11, 1851. at Hoosick. He was buried on the farm now owned by Stephen J. Haviland, of West Hoo- sick. Children: William, born September 23. 1786: Anna, July 13, 1789; Sarah, Octo- ber 4. 1791 : Harten, January 6, 1794; Gar- rison, mentioned below ; John, July 10, 1803; Asenath, November 18, 1805 : Pheba ( Phebe), April, 1809.


(VI) Garrison (2), son of Garrison (1) Haviland, was born at West Hoosick, New York, August 15, 1800. He was educated in the district schools of his native town and followed farming all his active life. He was a very strong man mentally and physically. and a leader in society. He married Aurilla Chapman, born February 29. 1810, daughter of John and Annis Chapman. Children : John G., of West Hoosick, born August 10, 1828: William C., of Pompey Hill, born Au- gust 3. 1832: Stephen J., of West Hoosick, born January 4. 1838: Norman H., mentioned below.


(VII) Dr. Norman H. Haviland, son of Garrison (2) Haviland, was born in West Hoosick. Rensselaer county. New York, Octo- ber 6. 1844. His childhood was spent on his father's farm of two hundred and forty acres at West Iloosick, and he attended the public schools there. Afterward he was a student at the Wallace private school at Hoosick Falls, and at the Folsome School, from which he graduated in 1866. He took charge of his father's farm in the spring of 1866 and conducted it for two years. During 1868 he began to study medicine with Dr. Carpenter, of Troy, New York, and afterward continued under the instruction of Dr. E. J. Marsh, of Hastings, New York. He then attended the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and was graduated March 14, 1872. Ile practiced during the summer of 1872 in association with Dr. I. B. Earl, of Sy- racuse, and in October of that year entered the Homeopathic Ilospital College of Cleve- land, now known as the Cleveland University


of Medicine and Surgery, and was graduated February 12, 1873, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He opened an office at Spen- certown, New York, and soon established an excellent practice. In the spring of 1876 Dr. Haviland removed to Fulton, New York, where he has since then enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He took the practitioner's course of the New York Homoeopathic Medi- cal College and Hospital in the spring of 1005. He acted as health officer for the town of Volney for a number of years, and was one of the members of the board of managers of the Albert Lindley Lee Memorial Hospital, also visiting physician to the same. He was the first president of the Fulton Academy of Medicine: in 1876 he joined the Oswego County Medical Society: in 1880 became a permanent member of the New York State Medical Society ; and is also a member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, Oswego County Homeopathic Medical Society, Medico-Chirurgical Society of Central New York. In religion he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church; in politics, a lifelong Republican. He de- clined the nomination of mayor for the city of Fulton in 1911.


He married (first) August 7, 1872, Nettie B., daughter of Rev. Thomas Newman, of Granby Center, New York. Her father was a Methodist Episcopal minister of the New York conference. She died July 2, 1891, at Fulton, New York. Dr. Haviland married ( second ) October 10, 1893. Emma Newton Chaffee, daughter of William C. and Ande- lusia Newton. Mrs. Haviland is a musician of rare ability and considerable note. Chil- dren by first wife: I. Dr. Clarence Floyd, born at Spencertown, August 15. 1875. He was educated in public schools of Fulton, New York, and graduated from the Fulton high school. 1893: he graduated from College of Medicine, Syracuse University, 1896. In 1896 he was appointed medical interne, at Manhattan State Hospital. Ward's Island, New York City, and successively occupied positions of junior physician, assistant physi- cian and second assistant physician at the same institution. Since 1910, he has been first assistant physician at Kings Park State llospital. Kings Park, Long Island, New York. From 1899 to 1904. he has been clini- cal assistant, department of neurology and psychiatry, Bellevue Hospital Medical College,


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and since 1904, he has held the same position in Columbia University. Dr. Haviland is the author of "Tuberculosis Among the Insane," "Prognosis in Alcoholic Paranoic Conditions," "Differential Diagnosis of Constitutional In- feriority and Dementia Præcox," "Occupation for Insane," "Causes of Insanity." and so forth. Dr. Haviland is a member of the Suf- folk County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, American Medical As- sociation, and American Medico-Psychological Association. He also belongs to the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and the Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity ; and is a member and past master of La Fayette Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons; and is a member of Amity Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar. Dr. Clarence Floyd Hav- iland married Amy Muller, June, 1908. 2. Frank Ross, born January 18, 1880, at Fulton, New York, attended Fulton high school, and then entered Syracuse Medical College, Syra- cuse, New York, remaining from 1899 to 1903, graduating June 10, 1903, with degree of Doctor of Medicine. He is a member of college fraternities: Nu Sigma Nu and Phi Kappa Psi.


He has since held in succession the fol- lowing positions: September, 1903, house physician, Watertown City Hospital, Water- town, New York, but resigned October I, 1903. to enter State Hospital Service : October 3. 1903. to November, 1904, medical interne, Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island, New York City : November, 1904, to January I, 1907, junior physician, Manhattan State Hospital: 1905 to 1906, also assistant physi- cian, West Side German Dispensary, nervous and mental diseases, New York City; Janu- ary I, 1907, to January 1, 1908, junior and house surgeon at St. Francis Hospital, New York City; January 1, 1908, to October I, 1908, junior physician, Manhattan State Hos- pital ; October 1, 1908, to March 1, 19II, as- sistant physician, Manhattan State Hospital ; appointed second assistant physician at Man- hattan State Hospital, March 1, 191I ; clinical assistant, department of psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- versity, New York City. He has contributed medical papers on "A Consideration of Invo- lution Melancholia," "Report of a case of De- pression in a Psychopathic Individual with pronounced suicidal tendencies, with special reference to management and treatment,"


"The relation of Infective Exhaustive Phy- chosis to Manic Depressive Insanity," etc.


(The Newion Line).


(1) Isaac Newton was probably born about 1770 in Connecticut. He settled in Stock- bridge, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and was living there in 1824 when he deeded to his son Chauncy. He also had a son Isaac.


(II) Chauncy, son of Isaac Newton, was born about 1800. He received land from his father Isaac and brother of the same name by deed in 1824 (see p. 234, Book 3-4. Berk- shire Deeds, Lenox, Mass.). He removed to a farm near Fulton, Oswego county, New York, with his family, about 1832. Among his children was William C., mentioned be- low.


(III) William C., son of Chauncy New- ton, was born June 7, 1824, at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, died at Fulton, New York, August 7. 1911. He married Andelusia Among their children was Emma, married Dr. N. H. Haviland (see Haviland VII).


(II) Thomas Seymour, eld- SEYMOUR est son of Richard (q. v.) and Mercy Seymour, was probably born in England, as no record of his birth appears in this country. His name occurs in the list of inhabitants and land- holders of Norwalk, in 1655, and he was one of the patentees named in the charter of 1686. In 1668 he was made freeman, and in 1673 possessed an estate of one hundred pounds. Fourteen years later his estate was valued at one hundred and eighty-four pounds in a list of the "Estates Commonage of the Inhabitants of Norwalk." He was de- puty from that town to the general court of Connecticut in 1690. His home lot, which had been his father's, was on the west side of the common, bounded on the west and north by the highway, and on the south by Richard Webb, being near the present First Church and old burying ground. He died in 1712, between September 22 and November 7. He married (first) in January, 1653, Hannah Marvin, baptized December 12, 1634, in Great Bentley, county Essex, England, and daughter of Matthew Marvin, of Hartford and Nor- walk. The date of her death is unknown, but we learn from his will that he had a second wife, Elizabeth. Children: Hannah, born December 12, 1654; Abigail, January, 1656;


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Mary and Sarah (twins). September, 1658: Thomas. September, 1660 ( not mentioned in will) ; John, mentioned below: Mercy, No- vember, 1666: Matthew, May, 1660: Eliz- azeth, December. 1673; Rebecca, January, 1075.


(III) John, second son of Thomas Sey- mour and probably child of his first wife, was born in 1662, in Norwalk, and died there be- tween May 26 and August 5, 1746, the dates respectively of making a codicil to his will and the proving of same. He married (first) Sarah Gregory, born September 15, 1678, in Norwalk, daughter of Jachin Gregory, son of John Gregory, one of the settlers of Nor- walk in 1655. His second wife bore the name of Ilannah. Children, probably all born at Norwalk, and presumably of the first wife: John, mentioned below; Mary, married Thomas Hanford: Sarah, married Daniel Trowbridge: Abigail, married, November 5, 1729, John Selleck, of Stamford; Rebecca, married (first) July 6, 1734, Elijah Whit- ney, (second ) John Bouton, of Danbury ; Martha, married Samuel Jarvis.


(IV) John (2) only son of John (1) and Sarah (Gregory) Seymour, was born 1711, in Norwalk, where he died. September 8, 1796.


He married (first ) Ruth, daughter of William and Margaret (Arms) Belden. Will- iam Belden, born 1671, was son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Foote ) Belden, of Deerfield, Mas- sachinsetts, and represented one of the early families of Wethersfield, Connecticut. This branch of the family was a severe sufferer through the Indian massacre at Deerfield. Ruth Belden was born January 18, 1713, at Norwalk, and died there May 29. 1782. Through her line the descendants of John (2) Seymour are entitled to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars. She was also descended from Nathaniel Foote and John Deming, pioneer settlers of Connecticut. John (2) Seymour married (second ) at New Ca- naan. Connecticut, February 4. 1784. Eliz- abeth Wood, of Iluntington. Long Island. Children of first wife: John, mentioned be- low; Seth, married Anna Benedict : William. born 1735, married, January 6, 1757. Lydia St. John : Sarah, married Ezra Hoyt ; Martha, married, February 12. 1761. Levi Taylor ; David, born December 24, 1744, married. Sep- tember 10. 1773. Lucy Alvord ; Ira, born Au- gust 31, 1748. married (first) November 14.


1772, Ruth Smith, ( second ) December 24, 1795. Jerusha Parsons ; James.


(\) John (3) son of John ( 2) and Ruth ( Belden ) Seymour, was born in 1734, at Nor- walk, where he resided on what has been known as the McMahon place on West ave- nue. In 1779 General Tryon, of the British army, burned the old Seymour house and he erected what was intended for a temporary home. and died before completing the house he planned to build. The temporary house stood until 1896, when it was taken down. He died at Norwalk, November 22, 1786, aged, according to his gravestone, fifty-two years. He married Rebecca Keeler, who was living at Norwalk in 1790. Children born at Norwalk: I. Jonathan, July II, 1755; mar- ried Hannah Betts. 2. Samuel, October 20, 1758; married Lydia Hanford. 3. Ruth, Oc- tober 16, 1760; married Augustus Sammis. 4. Rebecca, February 22, 1763 ; living at Nor- walk, unmarried, in 1811. 5. Sarah, March I, 1765; married Ebenezer Squire. 6. John, mentioned below. 7. Betty, October 18, 1770; married, December 1, 1798, William Aspin- wall Cannon. 8. Martha (Patty ), February II. 1773: married, January 1, 1797, Briant Stoddard.


(VI) John (4) son of John (3) and Re- becca (Keeler) Seymour, was born in 1767, in Norwalk, died in 1856. at Whitney Point, Broome county, New York. At the age of sixteen years he enlisted in the Connecticut line of the revolutionary army. As the war closed that year and he probably did not get into action, his name does not appear in the revolutionary rolls of Connecticut. He was, however, a pensioner in his old age. He was twelve years of age when Norwalk was burned by General Tryon in 1779. In 1792 he removed to Whitney Point, New York, conveying his belongings with ox teams ; there he acquired two hundred acres of land which he cleared and on which his grandson now resides. He was a member of the Congrega- tional church at Whitney Point, and was a Whig in politics. He married, after 1792. Sally Stoddard. He was the father of four sons and four daughters: I. Eliza, married General Patterson, and resided at Medina. New York. 2. Susan, died unmarried. 3. Nancy, married Benjamin Walter, who died at Newark Valley, New York ; she returned to Whitney Point in old age. 4. Ruth, wife of Charles Waldo, resided and died in Pon-




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